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Alternative assessments of the performance of the Yucca Mountain candidate HLW repository

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OSTI ID:20015800

This paper summarizes some of the most recent total system performance assessment (TSPA) work supported by EPRI for the proposed repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. In part 1 of the paper, standard TSPA analyses are presented. In Part 2 examples of two types of analyses that augment standard TSPAs are provided that suggest: (1) many components of the Yucca Mountain system contribute to overall hazard reduction; and (2) the biosphere dose conversions used, based on reasonably maximizing assumptions about future human behavior, provide a reasonable upper bound. These additional analyses should provide further confidence when considering more standard TSPA analyses.

Research Organization:
Electric Power Research Inst., Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US)
OSTI ID:
20015800
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English